Culminating Poem (15 pts)

1. Your last poetry assignment is to complete a culminating poem! Poem Requirements: • (3 pts) Three drafts: 12 lines/6 lines/3 lines • (2 pts) Poem is creative • (2 pts) Poem is thoughtful, polished, and unified—develops a single topic • (8 pts) Original poem contains at least 3 examples of clear, descriptive imagery (underline) and 1 other poetic device (describe in a sentence after your poem.) (Options: simile, metaphor, tone, diction, speaker, end rhyme, internal rhyme…). Culminating Poem (15 pts)

2. For inspiration… Photos: http://www.peacefulmind.com/images/massage/scallop_shell.jpg, http://ocw.nd.edu/architecture/nature-and-the-built-environment/lecture-5/seashell/image_preview

3. First, you are going to create a 12-line poem about the seashell. Think about how your seashell is different than all the other seashells on the beach. Consider the location of where the seashell was found. How and when it was found. Use sensory details. Describe the texture, coloring, size, etc. Next, you are going to revise that poem and cut it down to the most important 6 lines. You need to stay true to the importance of your single shell against the background of where it came from. Lastly, you are going to revise again and cut the poem into 3 lines. Your Task

4. Cream and brown against the fine sand Crinkled at the edges Ridged like the crimped edges of pie crust A single shell sits Wedged in its soft sandy bed Sniffed at by shaggy dogs on joggers’ leashes Reverently touched by a child in heart-shaped purple plastic sunglasses One single shell, beached A tiny mountain Polished as a statue This cream and brown cone Smoothed glassy by the touch of a million waves Example (12-line):

5. Cream and brown against the fine sand Smoothed glassy by the touch of a million waves Ridged like the crimped edges of pie crust A single shell sits Lifted by tiny hands to top a sandy fortress The two-foot guard wears heart-shaped purple plastic sunglasses Example (6-line):

6. Cream and brown against the fine sand One shell, smoothed glassy by the touch of many waves Ridged under my fingers like the crimped edges of pie crust I used the simile “like the edges of pie crust.” Example (3-line):“Sand and Glass”